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Assembly Bill A6898

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to falsely reporting an incident in the first degree

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2019-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.60, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A9798

2019-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to falsely reporting an incident in the first degree; adds a new category for reports or warnings of an alleged or impending occurrence involving a bombing, hostage situation or person armed with a deadly weapon.

2019-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6898
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, MOSLEY, SEAWRIGHT, D'URSO, ARROYO, LAVINE,
   BLAKE,  COOK,  BUCHWALD  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER,
   SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to falsely reporting an inci-
   dent in the first degree

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 240.60 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. COMMITS THE CRIME OF FALSELY REPORTING AN  INCIDENT  IN  THE  THIRD
 DEGREE  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISIONS ONE, TWO AND THREE OF SECTION 240.50
 OF THIS ARTICLE OR FALSELY REPORTING AN INCIDENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE AS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF SECTION 240.55  OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 AND  SUCH CRIME INVOLVES A REPORT OR WARNING OF AN ALLEGED OCCURRENCE OR
 IMPENDING OCCURRENCE OF A BOMBING, HOSTAGE  SITUATION  OR  PERSON  ARMED
 WITH  A  DEADLY WEAPON AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION 10.00
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10916-01-9

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